Motivational Quotes

Silence

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Silence

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

10.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

15.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

18.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

23.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

24.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

25.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

28.

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

30.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

32.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

33.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

34.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

37.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

40.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

42.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

43.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

45.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

46.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.